We Are The World Bob Gldof Analysis

No child can grow to be healthy and strong, without sufficient nutrition. No mother should have to watch her child slowly waste away, due to starvation. No father should have to watch his family go hungry, because he has been left helpless. These are the lives of many Ethiopian families as they battled through the famine crisis in the 70s and 80s. No family should have to live to starve, yet no one was prepared to intervene and prevent millions of deaths. That was until the Boomtown Rats lead singer, Bob Geldof, saw the starvation first hand. This lead to his personal vendetta to prevent the countless, unnecessary loss of life. He achieved this through his passion of music, which had the power to influence millions around the world to
They were very similar to Band Aid expect for the fact they were all American and were called ‘USA for Africa’. This song was softer compared to its counterpart, but still fulfilled the desired effect Jackson and Richie was looking for. Both of them followed in the influence of Bob Geldof, and produce this song with other famous artists. People such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, Kenny Loggins, and the inspiration himself, Bob Geldof as well as many others. The song, had more of a softer, peaceful influence compared the harsh reality ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’ song did. This is shown in the line ‘We are all part of God’s great big family’ and the line ‘Love is all we need’. This approach though utterly different, is just as effective. This makes the ideology have a gentler tone that feels the audience with care and progresses them to still action, but in a more loving manner. In a manner, that if they take their time, they can still achieve
Going for 16 hours in total and broadcasted across the globe to 110 nations by thirteen satellites to which more than 40 of these countries had telethons, with more than 75 acts by some the world’s greatest artists and bands of all time, watched by 170,000 people at the concerts and infinitely more across the globe on their tellies, with a total of $127 million raised to solve the African hunger crisis to say it was a success is an understatement. This day became known as the Day Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed the World. To have some many famous and influential people make such a stand against the wrongs of the world, it progresses the ideology of helping those need. This gathering of people at a global scale forces the audience in a position of questioning. Will they take action and stand for what is right? Will they voluntarily help those who need it? This makes think, which further progresses the ideology of helping those who are in